Poor Areas are Not Food Deserts

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Poor Areas are Not Food Deserts


Poverty and Health – Consumption Spreads Faster Today

http://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Cannon.pdf

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/02/10/opinion/10op.graphic.ready.html


How Deserving are the Poor? Bryan Caplan vs. Karl Smith on Vimeo

http://vimeo.com/m/36262871

 


Inside the New Poverty Measure Arnold Kling

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/12/inside_the_new.html


Let’s get real about poverty in America

http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/11/lets-get-real-about-poverty-america


Economic Freedom Needed To Alleviate Poverty Around The World

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3512


Compassion

http://healthblog.ncpa.org/compassion/


Junk Food isn’t Cheaper After All

http://healthblog.ncpa.org/junk-food-isn%E2%80%99t-cheaper-after-all/


How Lazy Is the Professoriat?

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/09/how_lazy_is_the.html

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2010/05/conscientiousne.html

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2009/03/econlog_book_cl_10.html


More People Are Poor Because We Define Them as Poor

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More People Are Poor Because We Define Them as Poor

 


Some Links

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Some Links

David Henderson, with some help from Tim Worstall, weighs in on the new and much-trumpeted report on America’s current rate of poverty.

Cato’s Dan Mitchell weighs in on the same issue.

AEI resident scholar Andrew Biggs (formerly with the Social Security Adminstration) weighs in on the debate over whether or not Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. (His answer: basically, yes it is.)

Over at Forbes, Merrill Matthews weighs in on the same debate.

 


Dramatic Increase in Poverty Rate: One Small Step for Obama, One Giant Step for the So-Called War on Poverty | Cato @ Liberty

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/dramatic-increase-in-poverty-rate-one-small-step-for-obama-one-giant-step-for-the-so-called-war-on-poverty/

 


Jesus Christ!

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Jesus Christ!



How Poverty Lost Its Meaning: http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj17n2-5.html

The Unheavenly City (“Culture of Poverty”): http://www.amazon.com/Unheavenly-City-Nature-Future-Crisis/dp/B001CF2NWU/ref=reg_hu-rd_add_1_dp

Does Welfare Help the Poor?: http://www.gmu.edu/centers/publicchoice/faculty%20pages/Tyler/welfare.pdf

http://ewot.typepad.com/the_economic_way_of_think/2011/02/while-i-was-recruiting.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FPYsx+%28The+Economic+Way+of+Thinking%29&utm_content=Google+Reader


How libertarianism helps the poor

http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/09/how-libertarianism-helps-the-poor/


The Poor Don’t Revolt

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/05/the-poor-dont-revolt.html


In Search of the Deserving Poor

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In Search of the Deserving Poor

 


How to Help Poor People in Poor Countries, Part 2

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How to Help Poor People in Poor Countries, Part 2

 


Who Understands the Causes of Poverty?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/02/who_understands.html

 


A Libertarian Antipoverty Agenda

http://www.thefreemanonline.org/headline/antipoverty-agenda/

Real Steps to Eliminate Poverty:
1. Eliminate all minimum-wage and occupational-licensure laws.
2. Open up the public schools to competition, if not outright abolishing them
3. End the War on Drugs


Food, Famine, and Globalization

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Food, Famine, and Globalization

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Are the poor getting poorer?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDhcqua3_W8


Back to the Future: Further Thoughts on the State of the Union

http://blog.mises.org/15439/back-to-the-future-further-thoughts-on-the-state-of-the-union/


The poor are not getting poorer

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20110126_The_poor_are_not_getting_poorer.html


How Not to Be Poor

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How Not to Be Poor


Open Letter to the President of the Sodexo Foundation

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Open Letter to the President of the Sodexo Foundation

 


If Government Were a Rich Man, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2010/11/if_government_w.html

 


“Proofiness:” Trashing back on FAO Hunger Numbers

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“Proofiness:” Trashing back on FAO Hunger Numbers

 


Why is promising a right to food more politically appealing than delivering that food?

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Why is promising a right to food more politically appealing than delivering that food?


Poverty is a Cause of AIDS

http://www.springerlink.com/content/p6766v2m82l73mk1/


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